It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.